Thornton v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that jury’s acquittal of codefendant for 14 conspiracy to commit murder did not require reversal of defendant’s conviction for conspiracy to commit murder because the inconsistent verdict rule has been abolished in Georgia
• jury may render inconsistent verdicts because of “mistake, compromise, or lenity” (citing United States v. Powell, 469 U.S. 57, 65 (105 SCt 471, 83 LE2d 461) (1984))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• VIRGER v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 62×
• Virger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 59×
• State v. OWENS (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-10· cited 20×
• Giddens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 18×
• Pinkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 3×
• Zechariah Presley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-02
• Paul Frazier Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-08-21
• Kecia Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-09-22

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• United States v. Powell
  Supreme Court· 1984-12-10· cited 2,102×
• United States v. Warren Collins
  Fourth Circuit· 2005-06-20· cited 198×
• Milam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-12· cited 180×
• United States v. Lawrence Edward Crayton, Jr., Also Known as Manny Harris and Alex Winters
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-02-05· cited 121×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 103×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 54×
• United States v. Jose Vargas Acosta
  Second Circuit· 1994-02-23· cited 49×
• Guajardo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-21· cited 47×
• Robles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-26· cited 38×
• King v. Waters
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 31×
• State v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-13· cited 31×
• Kimble v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-03· cited 31×
• Dugger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 30×
• Muldrow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-12· cited 28×
• Tepanca v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-04-20· cited 22×
• Parker v. Mooneyham
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-10-22· cited 13×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-19· cited 13×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-22· cited 9×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-17· cited 7×